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February 17th 2017:Building Business In Africa with Laila Macharia

So how do you build a successful company in Africa while contributing to the development of this beautiful and diverse content? While in Kenya last year, I met an inspirational business leader called Laila Macharia. A Stanford and Cornell law graduate, Laila left behind an exciting life in New York city to make a difference in Kenya, the country of her birth. She has since created and supported businesses across the region, from housing development to her current interest, a creative media and technology training college. She has also spent a decade helping reform policies in the land, financi

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Laila Macharia

Raised in Kenya, Namibia and Somalia, Laila Macharia is a Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor who the Times of London recently honored as one of the Top 20 Women to Watch in Africa. A graduate of Cornell and Stanford Law, she recently invested in the Africa Digital Media Institute in Nairobi. ADMI is a fast-growing digital arts and technology school that today hosts students from over 10 countries and in 2017, is expanding to West Africa. After a decade working on policy reform within Kenya Private Sector Alliance, Laila continues to support individual entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurship ecosystem. She also serves as a non-executive director at the Barclays Bank of Kenya and at Cen